Clipboard Engineering
Technical insights and engineering stories from the Clipboard team.
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Staff Engineering at Clipboard
March 17, 2026 • Rocky Warren, Senior Staff Software Engineer
What is Staff Engineering? If engineers want to progress beyond a Senior Engineer, should they choose the management or technical path? If they choose the technical path, what skills do they need to develop to reach Staff Engineer at Clipboard? What are the role's expectations?
Open-sourcing our Node.js, MongoDB-backed background jobs processor
February 19, 2026 • Piotr Jakubowski, Staff Software Engineer
Over the past two years, we've used our MongoDB-backed library to run billions of Node.js background jobs. It continues to run ~40M jobs per week (and growing) with throughput topping around 850 jobs/second. We open-sourced the library for others to use.
AI at Clipboard
October 6, 2025 • Trey Griffith, Chief Product Officer
Even though we've been profitable for years (and as a result, we don't have to orient our entire business around "what's most likely to get funding in the next 6 months”), a question that comes up from candidates is something along the lines of "what about AI?” (or my favorite from a recent interview: "AI… question mark?”).
Glassdoor May Hate Us, But Here's Why Our Employees Love Us
November 21, 2024 • Jesse Ferrigno, Head of People
Just like you might look at Yelp reviews before trying a new restaurant, we understand that many candidates check out reviews about our business on places like Glassdoor, Indeed, Reddit, etc.